The Kid

The Post Birthday Party Crash

May 18, 2013

I had big plans to write this whole complicated post about family size and being an only child, and then I went to a birthday party with a zillion 3-6 year olds at a jump place after my kid had a short nap, and now I am exhausted from the fallout, so yeah, big complicated [...]

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It Was a Very Busy Day

May 1, 2013

My kid, like many, is a creature of habit. We have routines, and specified orders of doing things, and certain routes we take, and heaven help us all if you deviate from those set patterns. In lots of things, he’s great at going with the flow, in many others though, he is as rigid as [...]

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The Perks of This Life

April 29, 2013

This weekend, we took the kiddo to Legoland for a little family time that was focused on the little dude rather than, you know, errands and stuff that we normally do on a Sunday. We got annual passes for Christmas, and they’ve turned out to be amazing gifts: because the park is only about 10 [...]

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On Not Enjoying Them When They’re Little

April 8, 2013

We’ve been going through a somewhat challenging time with the kiddo the last few weeks. He’s been defiant and screamy and just generally not a pleasant human to be around. His teachers have noticed it, we’ve noticed it, the people in the grocery store giving us those looks have DEFINITELY noticed it. It hasn’t been [...]

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The School

January 24, 2013

Yesterday we got an email that the director of J’s school is leaving to go to another school. She’s transitioning a new person into her job, who we’ll get to meet next week. I was really bummed to get this email, because I really, really like the director. She knows all the kid’s (and their [...]

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